J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours

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J.M.W. Turner > 1802-18 Academician and professor > Switzerland 1802 > Grenoble Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner Rives 1802

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Rives’ 1802
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Rives 1802
D04581
Turner Bequest LXXIV 88
Pencil on greyish-buff laid paper, 282 x 214 mm
Inscribed by Turner in pencil ‘Reve’ and ‘Reeve’ towards top left
Inscribed by an unknown hand in pencil ‘LXXIV 88’ bottom right
Stamped in black ‘LXXIV 88’ bottom right
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Finberg listed this leaf as ‘part of a parcel labelled by Mr. Ruskin – “R. 277. Grenoble series. Inferior drawings.”’ The drawings in this group are pencil outlines, lacking the additions of chalk or gouache found elsewhere in the sketchbook. In 1802, Turner passed by Rives as he entered the Isère Valley on his way southwards to Grenoble.1
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David Hill, Turner in the Alps: The Journey through France & Switzerland in 1802, London 1992, p.30.
Verso:
See D40199

David Blayney Brown
September 2011

How to cite

David Blayney Brown, ‘Rives 1802 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, September 2011, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, August 2014, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-rives-r1146446, accessed 20 September 2024.